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Those rules would’ve put Duke and Notre dame in and left out James Madison and Miami


I actually like it because it incentivizes conferences to build better schedules that actually end with the best team winning the conference
 

Some guy said:
Those rules would’ve put Duke and Notre dame in and left out James Madison and Miami


I actually like it because it incentivizes conferences to build better schedules that actually end with the best team winning the conference
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I think conferences are going to have to evaluate and change some tie breakers for their conference championship games. Possibly needs some SOS schedule component.

Or do you have teams that are guaranteed the CFP sit out the Conference Championship game?
 

MaxyJR1 said:
I think conferences are going to have to evaluate and change some tie breakers for their conference championship games. Possibly needs some SOS schedule component.

Or do you have teams that are guaranteed the CFP sit out the Conference Championship game?
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Don’t you have to win the conference championship to be guaranteed?
 



Some guy said:
Those rules would’ve put Duke and Notre dame in and left out James Madison and Miami


I actually like it because it incentivizes conferences to build better schedules that actually end with the best team winning the conference
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Might be what causes the end of conf championship games.
 

MaxyJR1 said:
I think conferences are going to have to evaluate and change some tie breakers for their conference championship games. Possibly needs some SOS schedule component.

Or do you have teams that are guaranteed the CFP sit out the Conference Championship game?
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What you do is you break the conference into two groups and have the two group play round robin. So you guarantee your best team doesn’t miss the conference title game due to SOS


Some call this divisions
I don’t think you do divisions. I think you could have two teams from the same group in the conference title game.
I think you could change the two groups every year.

At 18
Two groups.
Play 8 in your group and one from the other group (can use the one to preserve rivalries if teams are in opposite groups)
Or
3 groups of 6
Play your 5
Play 2 at random from each of the other two groups.

Again the groups could change every year

At 20
4 groups of 5
Play your whole group plus and entire other group.

At 24
Becomes tougher with just 9 conference games.
 

btowngopher said:
Might be what causes the end of conf championship games.
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I think the big ten wanted a set number of auto bids by conference so they could have 5 play 6 for the 5th bid in lieu of a conference title game

Go back to split titles


They also wanted a set number of auto bids so they could expand to 10-11 conference games without hurting their playoff chances
 




Gophers7NatTitlesBadgers0 said:
Agreed. Not much incentive to schedule many p4 teams outside of the ACC requirement.
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Not sure I agree

If they go 10-2 next year and SMU is an 8-4 team I don’t think they’ll be top 12

They were top 12 at 10-2 this year because they lost to two top 10 teams and had wins against a team that tied for conference champ game (Boise state), a top 18 team (USC), and a team in the tie for the ACC title game appearance (Pitt), and another team that was 11-1 outside of the Notre dame game (Navy)


If boise state and USC were both 6-6 they’re probably rated around 16 rather than 10
 
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I guess most years if ND was a top 12 team they’d be getting in as a at large anyways. Really only affects the rare occasions where they end up 11th or 12th.
 

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